Mental heath care in the UK has been cut to the bone. I’ve noticed a big uptick in people on the streets who clearly need urgent care. Another way in which Conservatives have screwed the citizens of this country. Feeling very 😢 for everyone in #hainault #GeneralElectionN0W

Really looking forward to this come join us! 👇🏼

revisited some of Julia Bell's RADICAL ATTENTION today - noting this passage especially, something I think about often

I could use my lovely blue tick to go off on some thousand word diatribe about how beyond awful these low-lying scoundrels are, but instead I’ll just stick with: register to vote, make sure you have the right ID to vote, and vote.

1890s colorized footage of daily life around the world - a thread

1. France 🇫🇷

oh sweet love it isn’t feminism it’s called internalised misogyny

This this this - Joseph Stiglitz: Neoliberalism Is Devouring Itself - The Atlantic theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

I have never been more paralysed, useless and despairing than in the six weeks I spent interning in an open plan office. If Bristol tries to roust me from the tiny tiny office in which I keep the whole of my sanity, I will commandeer the loo roll cupboard and I will not come out

Yes this 👇🏼

'Clichés, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality...'

― Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind

'Writing is an integral part of the process of understanding.'

— Hannah Arendt

La británica Julia Bell trabaja sobre la atención, la nuestra, la que hoy en día raramente se posa en un solo punto. Una reseña del ensayo «Atención radical» (@alphadecayed) por Rodrigo Mariotta 🔴
escaramuza.com.uy/nota/atencion-…

So that supposedly grassroots ‘tax protest’ against Angela Rayner today, was actually organised by the Conservative party.

Local Conservative Cllr John Coulson told me he staged the stunt alongside other local Tory politicians.

bylinetimes.com/2024/04/10/ang…

“Lies by their very nature have to be changed, and a lying government has constantly to rewrite its own history.”

— Hannah Arendt, 1974

Another day, another tale of management woe, and the failure of Tory HE policies. Solidarity with staff Goldsmiths, University of London theguardian.com/education/2024…

I’m just a woman, standing in front of a whole load of PhD applicants, begging them to PLEASE PLEASE STOP ASSUMING I HAVE EXPERTISE IN POSTCOLONIAL THEORY JUST BECAUSE I HAVE A MUSLIM NAME

Guess I'm now allowed to share that one of my new poems is included in the 24 for the new issue of Butcher's Dog Publishing . . . honoured to be included in such a fantastic publication. Thank you Dr Jo Clement 😀🥳

Julia Bell If anyone is wondering what one writer wrote in response to the implicit prompt the statue provides, our latest MinK anthology contains the answer - along with 32 other splendid examples of original writing! mklitfest.org/mink-anthologi…